Dear Erica and everyone, I must concur with Stephan Knauss's statement about OpenStreetMap:
> At least it is related in the way that this community provides the data > enabling you to render maps. > Although there are no terms that would force anyone to provide its tiles back to OpenStreetMap, I find it quite unpleasant that the FOSS communities don't back each other in their goals. Anyway, we have already removed Wikimedia Maps from our local portal at openstreetmap.cz . Yet the announcement made us quite sad, as the Wikimedia Maps tiles were one of the few OSM-based tile services updated regularly and often. Regards Jan On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 10:49, Erica Litrenta <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > here are a few clarifications about our prior announcement about the Maps > API deprecation for 3rd parties [1]. > > As stated, our plan is *not* going to have any impact on any > Wikimedia-hosted wikis. This means that nothing will change for maps, in > any namespace, on Wikipedia and any sister projects. Tools that are hosted > on Wikimedia services are also not going to be affected (i.e., > Kartographer). > > This said, we are aware that there may be map usage that doesn’t fit into > such venues where deprecation would still affect our community members and > their activities - for instance, the Wiki Loves Monuments website, and the > Wikimedia Poland chapter website both rely on our maps API. > > Hence, over the 45 day deprecation period which ends in mid October: *if > you represent an affiliated free knowledge group that does regular work > with our maps (any Wikimedia affiliates, or established wikiprojects), or > if you are closely partnering with other entities who do, we welcome you to > reach out, either here on this announcement thread or on the dedicated > Phabricator ticket [2].* > > > We will work with you to understand your needs, and what alternatives > exist. For further questions, I encourage you to contact me off-list to > reduce noise. > > Thank you. > > > > [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2020-August/001729.html > > [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261694 > > > -- > Erica Litrenta > Manager, Community Relations Specialists > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF) > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l >
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